# Director of Engineering, Growth
**Company:** [Poshmark](https://scaleengineer.com/companies/poshmark)
Director of Engineering, Growth at Poshmark is a strategic leadership role responsible for directing multiple engineering teams driving acquisition, engagement, and retention across a 165-million-member fashion marketplace. This position blends hands-on technical leadership with organizational management, requiring extensive experience in high-scale consumer product development, growth experimentation platforms, and distributed systems architecture. The ideal candidate combines 15+ years of software engineering expertise with 7+ years leading engineering managers in cross-functional environments, with demonstrated ability to shape technical strategy while maintaining coding depth in system design and architecture.
**Role:** Engineering Manager
**Seniority:** Director
**Locations:** US California (Redwood City) - Office
**Salary:** 250000–400000 USD
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## Responsibilities

- Team Leadership and Organizational Development: Lead and mentor multiple engineering teams and Engineering Managers across the Growth organization. Drive organizational planning, staffing, hiring, talent development, and succession planning. Develop Engineering Managers, senior technical leaders, and cultivate future leaders across the organization to build a sustainable and high-performing engineering culture.
- Growth Strategy and Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing teams to define growth strategy, roadmaps, and organizational priorities. Drive measurable improvements across customer acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and reactivation throughout the entire customer lifecycle.
- Technical Strategy and Architecture Leadership: Define and evolve technical strategy and architecture required to support Poshmark's long-term growth objectives. Actively participate in architecture discussions, challenge technical decisions, and guide teams through complex technical and product problems. Maintain strong technical depth as a hands-on leader capable of engaging in sophisticated system design conversations.
- Experimentation and Data-Driven Culture: Build and scale a strong experimentation culture enabling teams to rapidly test, learn, iterate, and scale successful ideas. Leverage data and analytics to inform product and engineering decisions. Champion data-driven decision-making across all growth initiatives and team operations.
- Engineering Excellence and Operational Standards: Maintain high standards for engineering excellence including automated testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), observability, reliability, performance optimization, and operational ownership. Champion incremental development and frequent production deployments to enable rapid learning and value delivery.
- Execution and Cross-Functional Delivery: Drive execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives while improving predictability and time-to-market. Balance rapid product delivery with strategic investments in technical health, scalability, developer productivity, and platform modernization. Own end-to-end delivery accountability and foster clear ownership culture.

## Requirements

### education

- {"name":"Computer Science or Related Degree","description":"Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related technical field is typically expected for this level. Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science or related discipline is beneficial but not required given strong professional experience."}

### technical

- {"name":"High-Scale Distributed Systems Architecture","description":"Proven experience designing, building, and scaling distributed systems and high-scale consumer products. Deep understanding of system design principles, microservices architecture, database optimization, caching strategies, and handling scale challenges affecting millions of concurrent users."}
- {"name":"Modern Engineering Practices and DevOps","description":"Strong expertise in contemporary software engineering practices including automated testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, observability platforms, monitoring, logging, and modern deployment strategies. Experience establishing engineering standards and practices that ensure reliability and performance at scale."}
- {"name":"Experimentation Platforms and Growth Technology","description":"Hands-on experience building experimentation infrastructure, A/B testing frameworks, feature flagging systems, and analytics platforms. Technical understanding of Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), personalization engines, attribution modeling, and MarTech ecosystem integration."}
- {"name":"Data-Driven Architecture and Analytics Integration","description":"Experience architecting systems that deeply integrate analytics, event tracking, and real-time data pipelines. Technical capability to design databases and data infrastructure supporting complex analytical queries, user segmentation, and behavioral targeting at scale."}
- {"name":"Performance Optimization and Reliability Engineering","description":"Demonstrated expertise in performance optimization, capacity planning, database query optimization, and building resilient systems. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience with focus on service level objectives (SLOs), incident response, and chaos engineering."}

### experience

- {"name":"15+ Years Software Engineering Experience","description":"Extensive background in professional software development with deep experience shipping production systems at scale. Career progression demonstrating technical growth from individual contributor through senior engineering roles with increasing responsibilities and impact."}
- {"name":"7+ Years Engineering Leadership","description":"Significant hands-on leadership experience managing and developing Engineering Managers. Track record of leading multiple engineering teams through complex organizational structures. Experience building high-performing engineering cultures, establishing technical standards, and driving organizational alignment."}
- {"name":"Consumer Product Development at Scale","description":"Proven success building and scaling consumer-facing products serving millions or billions of users. Experience optimizing for engagement, retention, and monetization metrics. Knowledge of consumer behavior, growth psychology, and product-market fit dynamics in high-growth environments."}
- {"name":"Growth Engineering or Marketplace Experience","description":"Preferred experience leading Growth Engineering teams in marketplaces, e-commerce, social platforms, or comparable high-scale consumer products. Familiarity with two-sided marketplace dynamics, seller and buyer experiences, and network effects. Experience with globally distributed engineering teams."}
- {"name":"Cross-Functional Collaboration in Matrix Organizations","description":"Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, Marketing, and other business functions in matrixed environments. Experience influencing senior technical, product, and executive stakeholders. Track record of aligning diverse teams around shared objectives."}
- {"name":"Complex Initiative Delivery","description":"Proven track record delivering complex, high-impact product and technology initiatives with measurable business outcomes. Experience managing multi-quarter initiatives spanning multiple teams with competing priorities and dependencies."}

## Skills

### required

- {"name":"Engineering Leadership and Team Development","description":"Ability to lead, mentor, and develop multiple engineering teams and managers. Strong in organizational planning, hiring, talent development, succession planning, and building high-performing cultures centered on clear ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement."}
- {"name":"System Design and Architecture","description":"Strong technical depth enabling meaningful participation in architecture discussions, system design decisions, and technical strategy. Capability to evaluate technology choices, tradeoffs, and guide teams through complex technical problems."}
- {"name":"Growth Product Knowledge","description":"Understanding of growth metrics, acquisition funnels, activation, engagement, retention, and reactivation mechanics. Knowledge of experimentation methodology, A/B testing, statistical significance, and data-driven decision-making in growth contexts."}
- {"name":"Execution and Project Management","description":"Proven ability to drive complex, cross-functional initiatives to completion. Strong in roadmap planning, prioritization, dependency management, and balancing speed with technical quality. Capability to improve predictability and time-to-market while maintaining high standards."}
- {"name":"Communication and Stakeholder Influence","description":"Strong communication skills with ability to articulate complex technical and strategic concepts to diverse audiences. Capability to influence senior technical, product, and executive stakeholders. Experience translating between technical and business language."}
- {"name":"Adaptability and Ambiguity Navigation","description":"Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities and significant ambiguity. Comfort with making decisions with incomplete information. Flexibility to adjust strategies as market conditions and organizational needs change."}

### preferred

- {"name":"Marketplace and E-Commerce Expertise","description":"Background building or leading in marketplace, e-commerce, social commerce, or comparable two-sided platform environments. Understanding of buyer and seller dynamics, trust and safety considerations, and network effects in marketplace ecosystems."}
- {"name":"Customer Data Platforms and MarTech","description":"Hands-on experience with Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), data segmentation, lifecycle marketing automation, personalization engines, attribution modeling, and cross-channel activation platforms. Understanding of data privacy, compliance (GDPR, CCPA), and customer consent frameworks."}
- {"name":"AI/ML and Personalization","description":"Experience building or scaling AI/ML-driven capabilities for growth applications including personalization, recommendation systems, propensity modeling, and intelligent customer acquisition. Collaboration with Data Science teams on model deployment and experimentation."}
- {"name":"Platform Modernization and Transformation","description":"Demonstrated success leading engineering transformation initiatives including modernizing legacy platforms, adopting new architectures, improving developer productivity, and establishing new engineering practices and ways of working."}
- {"name":"Mobile and Cross-Platform Product Development","description":"Experience shipping consumer products on mobile platforms (iOS/Android) in addition to web. Understanding of mobile-specific growth dynamics, app store optimization, push notification strategies, and cross-device user experiences."}
- {"name":"Scaling Infrastructure and Operational Excellence","description":"Background scaling infrastructure to support hypergrowth. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, and establishing SRE practices that maintain reliability during rapid scaling."}

## Tech stack

### tools

- {"name":"CI/CD and Deployment Platforms","description":"Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or comparable automation platforms. Experience establishing continuous deployment practices enabling frequent releases and rapid iteration."}
- {"name":"Monitoring and Observability","description":"DataDog, Prometheus, ELK Stack, Splunk, or similar observability platforms. Expertise in distributed tracing, log aggregation, metrics collection, and alerting for high-scale systems."}
- {"name":"Customer Data and Analytics Platforms","description":"Experience with Amplitude, Mixpanel, Segment, Treasure Data, or comparable CDP and analytics tools for user behavior tracking, segmentation, and growth insights."}
- {"name":"Cloud Infrastructure","description":"AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure. Expertise in containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and cloud-native architecture patterns."}
- {"name":"Experimentation and Feature Flagging","description":"LaunchDarkly, Optimizely, or in-house experimentation platforms. Experience building experimentation infrastructure that enables rapid testing and data-driven decision-making at scale."}

### others

- {"name":"Agile and Lean Methodologies","description":"Expertise in Scrum, Kanban, or other agile frameworks for managing engineering teams and delivering software incrementally. Understanding of lean product development principles and continuous improvement."}
- {"name":"System Design and Scalability","description":"Deep knowledge of distributed systems concepts including sharding, replication, consistency models, CAP theorem, and designing for high availability and performance."}
- {"name":"Growth Metrics and Analytics","description":"Fluency in growth funnel analysis, retention cohorts, lifetime value (LTV), customer acquisition cost (CAC), North Star metrics, and data science fundamentals supporting growth decisions."}
- {"name":"Security and Compliance","description":"Understanding of security best practices, data protection, privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA), and compliance considerations in consumer product platforms handling sensitive user data."}

### databases

- {"name":"PostgreSQL or MySQL","description":"Relational databases foundational to most consumer product platforms. Experience optimizing queries, scaling, and managing complex data relationships at scale."}
- {"name":"Redis or Memcached","description":"In-memory data stores critical for high-throughput systems. Experience with caching strategies, session management, and real-time feature flags."}
- {"name":"Data Warehousing Solutions","description":"Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or comparable platforms for analytics, data science workflows, and complex analytical queries supporting growth insights."}
- {"name":"Message Queues and Event Streaming","description":"Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies for building asynchronous systems, event-driven architectures, and real-time data pipelines supporting growth analytics."}

### languages

- {"name":"Java or Python","description":"Primary backend languages commonly used for building scalable consumer platforms and growth infrastructure. Deep expertise expected given leadership role overseeing technical decisions."}
- {"name":"JavaScript/TypeScript","description":"Frontend and full-stack capabilities important for understanding end-to-end product experiences. Modern JavaScript ecosystem experience beneficial for high-velocity product teams."}

### frameworks

- {"name":"Spring or Django","description":"Enterprise-grade backend frameworks commonly used in building scalable, production-grade systems at high-scale consumer companies."}
- {"name":"React or Vue.js","description":"Modern frontend frameworks commonly used for building responsive consumer experiences and growth product interfaces."}
- {"name":"Experimentation and Analytics Frameworks","description":"Frameworks and libraries for A/B testing, feature flagging (LaunchDarkly, Optimizely), event tracking, and real-time analytics infrastructure."}

## Benefits

### benefits

- {"name":"Equity Compensation","description":"Significant stock option grants providing ownership in Poshmark, allowing participation in the company's growth trajectory and long-term value creation as a publicly-traded company."}
- {"name":"Comprehensive Health Coverage","description":"Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees and family members with employer contributions supporting competitive healthcare benefits."}
- {"name":"401(k) Retirement Planning","description":"Tax-advantaged retirement savings plans with potential employer matching, enabling long-term financial planning and wealth building."}
- {"name":"Flexible Work Arrangements","description":"Flexible working policies supporting work-life balance for engineering leaders managing distributed teams. Remote-friendly work environment enabling productivity and lifestyle preferences."}
- {"name":"Professional Development","description":"Learning and development budgets, conference attendance, and professional certifications supporting continuous skill development and industry engagement for engineering leaders."}
- {"name":"Parental and Caregiving Leave","description":"Generous parental leave policies and caregiving support resources for employees managing family responsibilities alongside executive leadership roles."}
- {"name":"Mental Health and Wellness","description":"Mental health support services, wellness programs, and access to mental health professionals supporting holistic employee wellbeing and resilience in high-pressure leadership roles."}
- {"name":"Commuter and Transportation Benefits","description":"Pre-tax commuter benefits and transportation support for employees commuting to the Redwood City, California headquarters or nearby tech hubs."}

## Compensation

- **max:** 400000
- **min:** 250000
- **currency:** USD
- **stockOptions:** true

## Interview process

### steps

## Full description
## About Poshmark

  
**Poshmark is the leading fashion marketplace where style comes alive through discovery, self-expression, and human connection.** Powered by a vibrant community of 165 million members, Poshmark brings real people and taste to shopping through a social experience shaped by shared discovery. Buying and selling fashion feels simple, joyful, and personal, while every item tells its own story. Poshmark empowers sellers to grow meaningful businesses, keeps fashion in circulation longer, and gives shoppers access to unique and trusted finds, from everyday pieces to one-of-a-kind vintage and luxury.

## **About the Team**

The Growth Engineering team builds experiences and platforms that drive sustainable growth across the Poshmark marketplace. The team works across the customer journey—from acquisition and onboarding to engagement, retention, and reactivation—using technology, data, and experimentation to create meaningful customer and business impact.

Growth Engineering operates in highly collaborative, cross-functional squads, partnering closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, Marketing, and other engineering teams.

As **Director of Engineering (Growth)**, you will lead multiple engineering teams and managers responsible for critical growth initiatives across Poshmark. You will shape the technical strategy, build strong engineering leaders, and create a culture focused on customer outcomes, experimentation, execution, and engineering excellence.

This is not a pure management role. We expect our Directors to have the technical depth to engage in architecture discussions, challenge technical decisions, and help teams navigate complex technical and product problems.

## **Responsibilities**

* Lead multiple engineering teams and Engineering Managers across the Growth organization.
* Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing to define Growth strategy, roadmaps, and priorities.
* Drive measurable improvements across acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and other key growth opportunities.
* Build a strong experimentation culture, enabling teams to rapidly test, learn, iterate, and scale successful ideas.
* Drive execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives while improving predictability and time-to-market.
* Develop Engineering Managers, senior technical leaders, and future leaders across the organization.
* Define and evolve the technical strategy and architecture needed to support Poshmark's long-term growth.
* Maintain a high bar for engineering excellence, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, performance, and operational ownership.
* Champion incremental development and frequent production deployments, enabling teams to learn and deliver value quickly.
* Balance product delivery with investments in technical health, scalability, developer productivity, and platform modernization.
* Own organizational planning, staffing, hiring, talent development, and succession planning.
* Foster a high-performing engineering culture built around clear ownership, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and end-to-end ownership.

## **Requirements**

### **Required**

* 15+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building high-scale consumer products or distributed systems.
* 7+ years of engineering leadership experience, including experience leading Engineering Managers and multiple engineering teams.
* Proven track record delivering complex, high-impact product and technology initiatives.
* Strong technical depth with the ability to participate meaningfully in architecture, system design, and technical strategy discussions.
* Experience building experimentation-driven products and using data to make product and engineering decisions.
* Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, Marketing, and other business functions.
* Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and scalable system design.
* Experience developing engineering leaders and building high-performing teams.
* Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical, product, and executive stakeholders.
* Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with ambiguity and evolving priorities.

### **Preferred**

* Experience leading **Growth Engineering** in marketplaces, e-commerce, social, or other high-scale consumer products, including globally distributed teams.
* Experience with **Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and MarTech ecosystems**, including segmentation, lifecycle marketing, personalization, attribution, analytics, and cross-channel activation.
* Experience building and scaling **experimentation, personalization, and AI/ML-driven growth capabilities** to improve customer acquisition, engagement, and retention.
* Demonstrated success driving **engineering and organizational transformation**, including modernizing platforms, practices, and ways of working.